#352 – How will curiosity set you free from Ego-based anxiety?Your Ego demands answers. And when it can't get them––which is practically always––it spirals into fear, obsession, anxiety, dragging you down with it.That's what I was feeling last n...
#351 – Why does your Ego love "us/them" thinkingThinking in terms of us vs. them can feel protective in uncertain times.The narrative goes like this:We––people like me––are the good ones. They––people not like me––are the bad ones. Therefore, We dese...
#350 – What does seeing the gift in everything really mean?When was the last time you politely accepted a present but then frantically tried to return it or even re-gift it?Well, life is like that sometimes.Take me, for example. When I was born,...
#349 – What happens when you see a gift in everything?We tend to be quite close-minded about the gifts life gives us. If we have a baby and he's healthy and perfect, with rosy cheeks and incredibly detailed miniature fingers and fingernails, we...
#348 – How do you relate to time?Are you enslaved to time? Do you feel like it slips through your fingers while you're running around trying to achieve and accomplish and do and... survive? Do you sometimes feel you're "wasting" it in an unfulfilling...
#347 – How do you know it's time to re-commit?You committed to your goal. Putting yourself on the hook was energizing. You felt magnetic, radiant, indefatigable.Then life happened. You slowly started to pile things on top of your commitment, and one...
#346 – Why won't your Ego drop the magnifying glass?If, like your Ego, you were obsessed with status and your ranking in society, you'd also scrutinize everything and everyone, including yourself, and ask: more or less than me?A voice inside your hea...
#345 – What keeps you from noticing the beam in your eye?When you feel you're doing everything right, you're in danger: your feeling of perfection may make you self-righteous, and from that to forgoing empathy, the path is short.This is what's happen...
#344 – What taught you to negotiate love?Tell me if you had this experience: when you got what people really mean with "unconditional love," you thought: hm, I never had that growing up.Whenever my mother gave me the shoulder because I'd broken...
#343 – What do you expect will happen when people "hate" you?If what other people thought of you impacted your life in real ways, you might be dead by now––or at least pushing a cart and sleeping under a bridge.But you know that's not how it wor...